Blockchain method and system, and computer readable storage medium

ABSTRACT

The present invention is a system and method for recording right transfer in blockchain. There are three types of tokens, each of which may include a definition of rights. The rights can also be split or merged during circulation of tokens. The blockchain system ensures totality of rights does not increase nor decrease before and after circulation.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This patent application claims the benefit and priority of ChinesePatent Application No. 202010144044.7, filed on Mar. 4, 2020, thedisclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entiretyas part of the present application.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention is related to the fields of blockchaintechnologies. Specifically, the present invention is related to ablockchain method, system and computer-readable storage medium.

BACKGROUND

A blockchain is a distributed ledger system that includes a distributednetwork of nodes, each running a ledger program according to the sameblockchain protocol. Each transaction comprises of input and outputtokens. Token is a cryptographically certified value that can becirculated in the blockchain. Tokens comprise of value and ownershipcomponents. Traditionally, the value component of a token takes a formof single number, which we call numerical token. Such as a Bitcointoken, setting aside what is related to cryptograph and ownership, thecore content of a Bitcoin token is the amount of Bitcoins. A limitationof such traditional numerical tokens is that tokens can only be splitand merged in quantity, and cannot be split and merged by equitablerights. For example, traditionally, the membership rights of a movietheater represented by a numerical token can only be transferred toothers in its entirety, instead of transferring part of the membershiprights and keeping the rest membership rights to the original owner.

SUMMARY

The present invention provides a blockchain method, aiming to solve thetechnical problems mentioned above.

The present invention is implemented in this way, a blockchain method,the method specifically includes the following steps:

S1. Receive transaction or block, the block comprises of packedtransactions;

S2. Verify whether the received transaction or the transactions in theblock are legal;

S3. If the received block is legal, add the block to the end of thelocal blockchain data; if the received transaction is legal, keep thetransaction, and periodically pack the received legal transactions intoblock, add the packed block to the end of the local blockchain data andbroadcast it to other nodes in the blockchain network;

The transactions contain tokens, and a token contains a value and aright set, the right set is a set of rights, and a right is an index ora handle referencing a node in the right forest.

A value is one of a number, a geometric object or a monodromy.Monodromies may be identifications of things.

Right forest consists of a collection of right trees. A right tree is atree data structure. Right nodes in a right tree contain descriptions ofthe right scopes. Child right nodes of a right node always exist inpairs, which is called child right node pair. The right scopes of a pairof child nodes are complementary within the right scope of their parentright node.

Further, verifying the legitimacy of the transaction includes verifyingthe integrity of the transaction. When the values are numbers, verifyingthe integrity of the transaction specifically includes the followingsteps:

21) Split each token in the input token group and the output token groupinto simple tokens. Each simple token contains only one right of theright set of the token. The value of the simple token is the same as thevalue of the token. After splitting, the simple tokens form an inputsimple token group and an output simple token group respectively;

22) Based on 221), 222) and 223), merge the tokens in the input simpletoken group and the output simple token group until the input simpletoken group and the output simple token group are the same, or there areno tokens can be merged. If the merged input simple token group is thesame as the merged output simple token group, the transaction isintegral.

221) If there are two simple tokens with the same value andcomplementary rights under the same parent right in the input simpletoken group or the output simple token group, then merge the two simpletokens into a token whose value is the same as the simple tokens and theright set only contains the parent right.

222) If there are two simple tokens with different values andcomplementary rights under the same parent right in the input simpletoken group or the output simple token group, then merge the two tokensto form token A and B. The value of token A is the lesser of the valuesin the simple tokens, and the right set only contains the parent right.The value of token B is the difference of the values of the two simpletokens, and the right set is the right set of the simple token withgreater value.

223) If there are two simple tokens with the same right set in the inputsimple token group or the output simple token group, the two simpletokens is merged to form a token whose value is the sum of the values ofthe two simple tokens and whose right set is the right set of thetokens.

Further, verifying the legitimacy of the transaction includes verifyingthe integrity of the transaction. When the values of tokens aregeometric objects, verifying integrity of transactions includes thefollowing steps:

31) Construct an elementary right set for the transaction;

32) For each right in the elementary right set, find the matching inputtokens and matching output tokens covering the right respectively andconstruct a group of matching input geometric objects and a group ofmatching output geometric objects to include geometric objects in thegroups of matching tokens respectively. Optionally, merge the geometricobjects in matching input tokens and matching output tokensrespectively. Verify whether the group of matching input geometricobjects and the group of matching output geometric objects aregeometrically integral. If the test result is affirmative, thetransaction is integral under the elementary right;

33) A transaction is integral if it is integral under every elementaryright;

An elementary right set is a set of rights where no right in the set isthe ancestor of another right in the set and any right in a right set ofan input token or an output token is either in the elementary right setor can be formed by complementarily merging rights in the elementaryright set.

Geometrically integrity: If an input group of geometric objects and anoutput group of geometric objects are the same, the input group ofgeometric objects and the output group of geometric objects aregeometrically integral.

Further, the input group of geometric objects and the output group ofgeometric objects are the same if they satisfy conditions 1 and 2.Conditions 1 and 2 are as follows:

Condition 1: There is no spatial overlap among the geometric objects inthe output group;

Condition 2: The space occupied by all input geometric objects is thesame as the space occupied by all output geometric objects;

Further, the geometric objects in the transactions are polygons, and apolygon comprises of a group of loops. A loop is an ordered list ofdirectional borders. Directional border contains border and directioninformation, and border forest is a collection of border trees. A bordertree is a tree data structure. Border is an index or handle referencinga node in the border tree, and a node of the border tree represents thezigzag lines formed by the edges represented by all leaf nodes in thesub-tree rooted at the node.

Merge all polygons in matching input tokens and all polygons in matchingoutput tokens respectively to form a group of input merged polygons anda group of output merged polygons.

If the input merged polygon group and the output merged polygon groupconsist of the same polygons, the transaction is geometrically integral;

If the number, order, and content of the directional border lists of thetwo loops are the same, or after several operations of op.1 or op.2, thenumber, order, and content of the directional border lists of the twoloops are the same, then the two loops are equivalent:

Op.1: Circularly rotate the list of directional borders of one of theloops;

Op.2: Replace a directional border with sub-borders in one of the loops;

Two polygons are identical if the loops of the two polygons correspondone-to-one by equivalence.

Further, the method for merging polygons specifically includes thefollowing steps:

S11. Test whether polygon A and polygon B to be merged have commonedges. If the test result is affirmative, obtain zigzag line segmentscomposed of all common edges of polygon A and polygon B with endpointsas (e₁, f₁), (e₂, f₂), . . . , (e_(w), f_(w)), wherein the line segmentsshare no common endpoints;

S12. For each of the above line segments (e_(i), f_(i)), perform thefollowing steps. After all are completed, all non-empty loops in A and Bwill form a merged polygon:

S121. If e_(j) or f_(j) is not an endpoint of the directional borderthat it is in, replace the directional border with sub-borders in theloop containing the directional border. Repeat it until e_(j) and f_(j)are both endpoints of a directed border in the loop;

S122. If the line segment (e_(j), f_(j)) appears in two different loopsQ and R, merge the loops Q and R into a loop equivalent to W. The methodto generate the loop W is as follows:

Rearrange loop Q and the loop R in their original circular orders,excluding the borders in the line segment (e_(j), f_(j)), to form twonew directional border lists, such that the starting points of the firstdirectional border and the ending points of the last directional borderare endpoints of the line segment (e_(j), f) for both lists. Thenconcatenate the two lists of directional borders, the concatenated listof directional borders constitutes the new loop W;

S123. If the line segment (e_(j), f_(j)) appears twice in a loop W,split the loop W into two new loops named loop W₁ and loop W₂. The loopsW₁ and W₂ are respectively composed of two groups of directional bordersin the loop W that appear between the line segments (e_(j), f_(j))according to the original circular order.

Further, the method for constructing elementary right set includes thefollowing steps:

71) Merge the right sets in the input tokens and the right sets in theoutput tokens to form a set R1;

72) Based on step 73) and step 74), replace the rights in the set R1,until there are no rights with ancestor-descendant relationship in theset R1, then the set R1 is an elementary right set;

73) Test whether there is an ancestor-descendant pair of rights in theset R1;

74) If the test result is affirmative, obtain each right r in theparent-child relationship chain between the descendant and ancestorrights except for the ancestor and add the complement right of r to theset R1. Delete the ancestor right from the set R1;

Further, verifying the legitimacy of the transaction includes verifyingthe integrity of the transaction, the values of the tokens aremonodromies, and the verification of the transaction integrity includesthe following steps:

81) Incorporate monodromies in all input tokens and output tokens into amonodromy set;

82) For each monodromy in the monodromy set, find the matching inputtoken and matching output token containing the monodromy. Add all therights in right sets of the matching input tokens and matching outputtokens to a input matching right group and a output matching right grouprespectively;

83) Complementarily merge the input matching right group and the outputmatching right group to form a merged input right group and a mergedoutput right group respectively.

84) Test whether the merged input right group and the merged outputright group are the same, if the test result is affirmative, thetransaction is integral under the monodromy;

85) A transaction is integral if, for every monodromy in the monodromyset, the transaction is integral under the monodromy.

The present invention is implemented in this way, during the circulationprocess of the token in the blockchain system, constructs transactionper user; sends the transaction data to nodes in the blockchain.Construction of transaction includes splitting and merging of rights,and the method of rights splitting is as follows:

Divide the rights in the input token right set into two complementarysubsets.

Construct two output tokens, the value of the two output tokens are thesame as the value of the input token, and the right sets of the twooutput tokens are the two subsets respectively.

The method for right merging is as follows:

Merge the two input tokens with the same value to form an output token.The value of the output token is the same as the value of the inputtokens, and the right set is the union of the two input token rightsets;

The transaction contains tokens, and the token contains a value and aright set. The value is one of: a number, a geometric object, amonodromy. A monodromy may be the identity of a thing. The right set isa set of rights, which are indexes or handles referencing nodes in theright forest. The right forest consists of a collection of right trees.A right tree is a tree data structure. Each node in the right treecontains description of right scope. The child nodes of a node exist inpair, which is called sub-right node pair. The right scopes of a pairare complementary within the right scope of their parent node.

The present invention is implemented in this way, a block chain system,the system is composed of nodes and terminals, the nodes and theterminals are connected to the Internet and communicate with each otherthrough the Internet.

Terminal constructs transaction based on the blockchain method describedabove per user, and sends the transaction data to the nodes in theblockchain system;

Node receives the transaction data sent by the terminal or the blockdata sent by other nodes, and the block comprises of packedtransactions. The node verifies whether a received transaction ortransactions in a block are legitimate. If the received block is legal,add the block to the end of the local blockchain data; if the receivedtransaction is legal, keep the transaction, and periodically pack thereceived legal transactions into a block, adding the packed block to theend of the local blockchain data and broadcast it to other nodes in theblockchain network.

The present invention is implemented as a computer-readable storagemedium on which a computer program is stored. When the computer programis executed by a processor, any of the blockchain methods describedabove is implemented.

A blockchain system consists of multiple blockchain nodes connected tothe Internet. Each node can receive transaction information from networkterminals and blocks from other nodes. After the node receives thetransaction information, it verifies if the received transaction islegal, including verifying that the input of the transaction is anunused token in the blockchain and if transaction has properauthorization and is integral. The blockchain system only acceptsverified transactions. The present invention suggests methods forgenerating and verifying transaction of tokens with rights.

The present invention suggests that the token can contain a set ofrights. Right can be divided or merged. The present invention suggestsmethods of dividing and merging. Any right can be divided into twocomplementary rights, affirmative and negative, according to anydefinition, and vice versa, these two rights can also be merged into oneright. Further, tokens can be split by rights, the right set in a tokenmay be split into two disjoint subsets, thus a token is divided intotwo.

Further, the present invention also proposes that value of token can bemore than just a number, it may be a geometric object or a monodromy.For different value types, the present invention proposes method fortransaction verification, token splitting and merging. These methodstogether constitute a blockchain system, which can realize functionsthat cannot be provided by traditional blockchain systems, thus bettermeet the needs of users.

Taking land-related rights as an example, if the land is represented bypolygons in the blockchain, a blockchain with traditional methods canonly represent one kind of land rights, such as land ownership. However,through the method for splitting and merging right provided by thepresent invention, polygon with rights may be used to represent landrights, such as ownership, contracting rights, management rights, andproduction rights in order to meet the needs of land circulation better.

Take tokens with number values as an example. The traditional blockchaincan only fully transfer the rights represented by the values, and cannotperform partial transfer. For example, if the values represent themembership of a movie theater, the traditional blockchain only allowsthe transfer of membership in entirety, and does not allow the transferof part of the membership rights, such as the right to watch a certainmovie. Through the method of splitting and merging equity provided bythe present invention, the right to watch a certain movie can betransferred and the remaining rights retained.

Take a token containing monodromy and right set as another example.Monodromies are suitable for representing items that are unique in thereal world, such as artworks. However, although the items are unique,but the rights attached to them are many. Artwork can be sold, pledged,rented, and more. By recording the circulation of rights of artworks onthe blockchain, the artworks are better protected against forgery, andliquidity of artworks is also improved.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 illustrates a blockchain system according to an embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 2 illustrates relationship among rights according to an embodimentof the present invention.

FIG. 3 illustrates a transaction involving polygon tokens with rightaccording to an embodiment of the present invention, wherein (a) showinggeometric shapes of the input polygons, and (b) showing geometric shapesof the output polygons.

FIG. 4 illustrates data structure of geometric objects according to anembodiment of the present invention, wherein FIG.(a) is a diagram ofgeometric objects, and FIG.(b) is a tree data structure for storing dataof the geometric objects in FIG. (a).

FIG. 5 illustrates geometric objects to be merged in a merging operationaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 illustrates geometric objects after being merged in first mergingoperation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 illustrates geometric objects after being merged in secondmerging operation according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Many embodiments could be constructed according to the presentinvention. Embodiments of the present invention will be describedclearly and in entirety in further detail below with reference to theattached figures. Obviously, the embodiments described are only some,but not all, embodiments of the present invention. Based on theembodiments or principles of the present invention, technicians mayconstruct other embodiments according to the present invention withoutcreative work, which are protected within the scope of the presentinvention.

FIG. 1 is a blockchain system consisting of one or more networkterminals (S102) connected to the Internet (S101) and one or moreblockchain nodes (S103) connected to the Internet (S101). The networkterminals (S102) construct transactions according to the user input, andsend the transaction to the blockchain nodes (S103) through the Internet(S101). Each blockchain node (S103) can receive transaction from thenetwork terminals (S102) and blocks from other blockchain nodes (S103).A transaction consists of a group of inputs and a group of outputs. Eachoutput of a transaction is a token. In some embodiments, each input of atransaction is a reference to another transaction's output token. Insome other embodiments, each input to the transaction is also a token.After having received a transaction, the nodes (S103) test whether thereceived transaction is legal, including test that inputs of thetransaction are unspent tokens in the blockchain; and whether thetransaction has appropriate authorization and is integral. Forembodiments that use the unspent transaction output (UTXO) accountingmethod, the unspent token is the output of a transaction that has notbeen referenced as input by any transaction. For embodiments that useaccount based bookkeeping method, unspent tokens are the tokens in thetoken provider's account. The nodes (S103) pack legal transactionsreceived periodically to generate a block. Append the block to the tailof local blockchain data, and broadcast it to other nodes in the network(S103) through the Internet (S101). After having received a new blockfrom other nodes (S103), nodes (S103) test whether all transactions inthe received block are legal. If the test result is affirmative, theblock is appended after the tail of the local blockchain data as thelatest block of the blockchain.

The network terminals (S102) may be a computer, a mobile phone, or othersmart devices, and the blockchain nodes (S103) may be a computer, ablockchain mining machine, or a server.

An embodiment of the present invention is a blockchain method,comprising the following steps:

S1. Receive transaction or block. The block is formed of packedtransactions;

S2. Verify that the received transaction or the transactions in theblock are legal.

S3. If the block is legal, append it after the tail of local blockchaindata. If the received transaction is legal, keep the transaction andperiodically pack the legal transactions into a block, append the blockafter the tail of the local blockchain data and broadcast it to othernodes in the blockchain network.

Blockchain nodes verify the legitimacy of transactions. A blockchainnode includes a right database and a processor unit. The right databasecontains the definition of all rights in the blockchain in a tree datastructure. The processor unit stores the right definition data into theright database, and verifies legitimacy of the transaction according tothe information in the right database. Verification of the legitimacy ofthe transaction includes verifying integrity of the transaction.

A transaction consists of a group of inputs and a group of outputs.Inputs are references to tokens spendable in the blockchain (calledinput tokens), and outputs are new tokens produced by the transaction(called output tokens). Mainstream blockchain technologies use two typesof book-keeping systems. One is the UTXO method, such as what is used byBitcoin. This method does not record the user's assets in a centralizedrecord. Instead, users prove their ownership of assets bycryptographically unlocking a transaction output and spend thetransaction output at the same time. The other method is an accountbased book-keeping method, such as what is used by Ethereum, which issimilar to the traditional accounting method. In this method, inaddition to transaction records, the blockchain also stores the mappingrelationship from Ethereum addresses to assets. Each mappingrelationship constitutes an account. The Ethereum address is the hashvalue of a public key, and the asset transferring party in thetransaction proves ownership of the Ethereum address cryptographically,hence ownership of the assets under mapping. Once a legal transaction isaccepted by the blockchain, the node updates the mapping by deductingthe transferred assets from the sender's account and add it to thereceiver's account. The present invention may be implemented usingeither accounting methods. If the UTXO accounting method is used in anembodiment, a spendable token is an unspent output of anothertransaction. If the account based book-keeping method is used, whereinan account is a mapping relationship from a blockchain address to acollection of tokens, a spendable token is a token in the collection. Ina transaction, senders prove their ownership to the addresses referredin the inputs cryptographically. Once the transaction is accepted by theblockchain, the nodes delete input tokens from their collections and addtokens to collections of the respective output addresses. It is easierto implement the present invention using the UTXO accounting method thanusing account based method. Embodiments described here will be based onUTXO method. According to the description of an embodiment based on UTXOmethod, technicians in the field can construct an embodiment of thepresent invention using account based method without making any creativeeffort, which is also protected under the present invention.

Token contains the following data: (a) a value; (b) a right setcomprising rights. We denote a token as [V, R], where V is the value ofthe token, and R is the right set. The value of the token can be one ofthe following three types:

a) A number; for example, the number 5 represents 5 Bitcoins.

b) A geometric object; for example, a polygon representing a piece ofland; the geometric objects in the tokens are not limited to polygons,but can be polyhedrons, or any mathematically defined geometric object,such as spheres, curved surfaces, etc.

c) A monodromy; monodromies may be the identifications of matters orthings.

Monodromies can be of many kinds, characterized by uniqueness. They areindivisible nor combinable with other data during informationprocessing. Monodromies can represent real or virtual objects, events,or people. A monodromy can be a hash value, name or codename of a realor virtual thing, (including people, events, objects, places, regions,projects, programs, organizations, groups, concepts, procedures,methods, processes, natural phenomena, etc., everything that can benamed), an index value or a handle.

For example, the hash value of a scanned image of a painting, used torepresent a painting, is a monodromy. Names of people and places canalso be monodromy. An event name such as “2016 Olympics” can also be amonodromy. Virtual things, such as the “Starship Enterprise”, can alsobe a monodromy.

Any right F can be split into two rights with respect to any descriptiond affirmatively and negatively. The original right is called the parentright, and the split rights called child rights. The two child rightscomplement each other under the parent right. Denote the child rightaffirming description d within the right scope of F as F(d), and childright denying description d within the right scope of F as F(˜d). Eachof these two child rights is a complement to the other child right. Thatis, F(d) is the complement of F(˜d) and F(˜d) is the complement of F(d).The child rights F(d) and F(˜d) so split can also be merged into theirparent right F, i.e.: F=F(d) ∪ F(˜d). A right is an ancestor (ordescendant) of another right if a chain of parent-child rights existsbetween them.

Rights are represented by a triple (p, d, j), if its index is R, it canbe denoted as R(p, d, j), or abbreviated as R. We can use the hash valueof the triple as its index. In this triple, p is the parent item, whichis the index of a right in the blockchain (nil when there is no parentright). d is the description item, which is any text of any length. Textincludes human-readable text, or data that can be processed by acomputer program. f is attribute of the right, which is a Boolean value.

If f is true, the scope of right R is the scope described by d withinthe scope of p. If f is false, the scope of right R is the scope deniedby d within the scope of p.

Rights forms a tree data structure according to their parent-childrelationship which is called a right tree, in which each right noderepresents a right, and the parent-child relationship of the right nodesin the tree represents the parent-child relationship of rights. Thechildren of a node always appear in pair in a complementaryrelationship. The database for rights stores multiple right trees, andthese right trees form a right forest. Each right in the right set of atoken is an index or handle referencing a right node in the rightforest.

If the right set of a token contains only one right, it is called asimple token.

In a right set or a right group, if a complementary relationship betweentwo rights exists, the two complementary child rights can be replaced bytheir parent right in the right set or the right group. This operationis called complementary merging.

A token covers a right if the right itself or one of its ancestors is inthe token's right set.

Take land rights as example. Assume there is a token [L,{P(nil, “landownership”, true)}] representing a piece of land, where L is a polygonrepresenting shape of the land. When the land is let, the owner of thetoken [L,{P}] will split the token into two tokens, [L,{Q(P, “land leaseright”, true)}] and [L,{S(P, “land lease right”, false)}]. The ownerwould transfer the former token to the tenant and keep the latter token.The tenant can further split the token into two tokens, [L,{T(Q,“landsublease right”,true)}] and [L,{U(Q,“land sublease right”,false)}] andtransfer the former to the sub-tenant. Take another example of tokenscontaining numerical value and right. Assuming a cinema issues a token[5,{P}] (with value 5 and right set {P(nil, “membership”, true)}), whichrepresents 5 membership cards. Assuming that the cinema provides amembership privilege that members may watch movies free every Tuesday.The token owner can split the token into two tokens[5,{Q(P,“2019/11/5”,true)}], and [5,{R(P, “2019/11/5”, false)}]. Theformer token represents the right to watch free movies on Nov. 5, 2019.Token holders can further split the former token into 5 [1,{Q}] tokensand transfer them to 5 friends to watch the movie on May 11, 2019. Asfor the latter token, the owner can continue to split into two tokens[5,{S(R,“2019/11/12”,true)}], and [5,{T(R,“2019/11/12”, false))}], etc.In so doing, the owner can perform a right split every Tuesday andinvite 5 people to watch the movie.

Another example is about tokens that contain monodromies and rights.Assuming a museum has a token [D,{P(nil,“ownership”,true)}] thatrepresents a painting, where D is the hash value of a digitally scannedimage of a painting. If the museum plans to rent the painting to anothermuseum for exhibition in December 2019, the first museum can split thetoken into [D, {S(P, “right to exhibit in December 2019”, true)}] and[D,{T(P,“right to exhibit in December 2019”, false)}]. The former tokenis transferred to the second museum evidencing an exhibition contract.The latter token is reserved by first museum and can be further splitfor exhibition rights in other time periods.

The blockchain nodes verify legitimacy of transactions, which includesverifying integrity of transactions. Transactions are legal only if theyare integral. Integrity refers to the characteristics that the group ofinputs and the group of outputs are the same in property and quantity.What amounts to “the same” depends on the types of tokens. Legitimacyverification also includes the conventional verification of ownership bycryptographic method, but this does not belong to the scope of thepresent invention.

The program for verifying integrity of transactions can be part of theblockchain kernel program, or it can be included in a smart contractdeployed on the blockchain and when the blockchain kernel programexecutes the smart contract, the transaction is verified. No matterwhich method is adopted, they are all within the scope of the presentinvention.

An embodiment of the present invention is a method for verifyingintegrity of transactions with numerical tokens, the method is asfollows:

a) Split tokens in transactions into simple tokens. The method to splitis that, for each right in the right set of each input token and outputtoken, construct a simple token respectively. The simple token has aright set containing only that right and value component identical tothe original token. Place the simple tokens split from the input tokensin the simple group of input tokens. Place the simple tokens split fromthe output tokens in the simple group of output tokens.

b) If there are two tokens in the simple group of input tokens or in thesimple group of output tokens with identical values and their rights arecomplementary under one parent right, the two tokens will be merged intheir respective group into a simple token with value identical tovalues of the original tokens and a right set containing the parentright only.

c) If there are two tokens in the simple group of input tokens or in thesimple group of output tokens whose values are different and the rightsare complementary under one parent right, replace in their respectivegroup the two tokens with a token whose value is identical to the lesserof the two values of the two tokens and whose right set contains onlythe parent right, and a token whose value is the difference of the twovalues of the two tokens and whose right set is identical to that of thetoken with greater value.

d) If there are two tokens with identical right sets in the simple groupof input tokens or in the simple group of output tokens, replace intheir respective group the two tokens with a token having a value equalto the sum of the values of the two tokens and a right set identical tothat of the two tokens.

e) If, after none or some applications of the above operations, thesimple group of input tokens and the simple group of output tokens areidentical, the transaction is integral.

Take an example to illustrate verification of integrity of a transactionusing the method described above. Assuming that input tokens of thetransaction are A=[5, {a, b, c, d}], B=[7, {a, e, f, g}], output tokensare C=[5,{a, d, f}], D=[5,{g, k, h}], E=[7, {a, f, g}], F=[5,{c, e}],G=[7,{e}]. As shown in FIG. 2 , a=c∪g, b=d∪k, c=f∪h, d=e∪a.

For the input tokens, first split the tokens into simple tokensaccording to step a), the result is: [5,a], [5,b], [5,c], [5,d], [7,a],[7,e], [7,f], [7,g]. Then merge according to step d), the result is:[12, a], [5, b], [5, c], [5, d], [7, e], [7, f], [7, g]. Then mergeaccording to step c), the result is: [5, a], [5, b], [5, a], [2, g], [5,d], [7, d], [7, f]. Then merge according to step d), the result is: [10,a], [5, b], [2, g], [12, d], [7, f].

For the output tokens, first split the tokens into simple tokensaccording to step a), the result is: [5,a], [5,d], [5,f], [5,g], [5,k],[5,h], [7,a], [7,f], [7,g], [5, c], [5, e], [7, e]. Then merge accordingto step b), the result is: [5,d], [5,b], [5,c], [5,a], [7,a], [7,f],[7,g], [7,e]. Then merge according to step d), the result is: [5,d],[5,b], [5,c], [12,a], [7,f], [7,g], [7,e]. Then merge according to stepc), the result is: [5,d], [5,b], [5,a], [5,a], [7,f], [2,g], [7,d]. Thenmerge according to step d), the result is: [12, d], [5, b], [10, a], [7,f], [2, g]. According to step e) the final result of the simple group ofoutput tokens is the same as the simple group of input tokens, and thetransaction is integral.

One embodiment of the present invention is a method for verification ofintegrity of transactions with tokens containing geometric objects,including the following steps:

11) Construct an elementary right set for the transaction;

12) For each right in the elementary right set (an elementary right),find the matching input tokens and the matching output tokens coveringthe right respectively and construct a group of matching input geometricobjects and a group of matching output geometric objects to includegeometric objects in the matching tokens respectively. Optionally,geometric objects in a group may be merged before the next step in orderto reduce complexity of testing. Test whether the two group of geometricobjects are geometrically integral. If the test result is affirmative,the transaction is integral under the elementary right;

13) A transaction is integral if it is integral under all the elementaryrights.

A token covers a right if the right is in the right set of the token oris a descendant of a right in the right set.

Elementary right set is a set of rights, wherein no right is an ancestorof another right and any right in the rights sets of input tokens or inthe right sets of output tokens is either in the elementary right set orcan be formed by merging some rights in the elementary right setcomplementarily.

If a group of input geometric objects and a group of output geometricobjects are the same, the group of input geometric objects and the groupof output geometric objects are geometrically integral.

A group of input geometric objects and a group of output geometricobjects are the same only if the group of input geometric objects andthe group of output geometric objects satisfy conditions 1 and 2. Theconditions 1 and 2 are as follows:

Condition 1: There is no spatial overlap among the geometric objects ofthe group of output geometric objects;

Condition 2: The space occupied by all the geometric objects of thegroup of input geometric objects is the same as the space occupied byall the geometric objects of the group of output geometric objects.

FIG. 3 is an example of verifying integrity of transactions involvinggeometric objects. The relationship among rights a-g is the same asshown in FIG. 2 . The input polygons are U(ΔAED), V(ΔBEA), S(ΔBCF),T(ΔCDF). The output polygons are X(ΔBCFE), Y(ΔCDF), Z(□ABCD). Theirright sets are U{f, c}, V{d, c}, S {d, c}, T{b, c}, X{g}, Y{g, e}, Z{f,c} respectively. In this example, the set of all the rights in inputsand outputs is G={f, c, d, b, g, e}, the elementary right set is R={f,c, g, e}. For rights f and c, the input and output polygon groups of thetokens whose the right set covers f are {U,V,S,T} and {Z} respectively.The merged input polygons is □ABCD, which is the same as Z, thereforethe input and output polygon groups are geometrically integral under fand c. For right g, the input and output polygon groups of the tokenswhose the right set covers g are {V,S,T} and {X,Y} respectively. Themerged input polygons is ABCDE, and the merged output polygons is alsoABCDE, thus they are geometrically integral. For right e, the input andoutput polygon groups of the tokens whose the right set covers e are {T}and {Y} respectively, which are both Δ CDF. Therefore the input andoutput polygon groups are geometrically integral under e. Thus for eachelementary right, the input and output polygon groups are geometricallyintegral under the elementary right, therefore, the transaction isgeometrically integral.

Polygons are a type of geometric objects. One embodiment of the presentinvention is a method for verification of geometric integrity of aninput geometry group and an output geometry group for a transaction inwhich the values in the tokens are polygons.

First, the local device stores a border forest; the border forest is acollection of border trees; a border tree is a tree data structure.There is a tree-like hierarchy among borders. In geometrical meaning,border is either a polygon edge or formed by plural contiguous edges.Edges in a border may belong to one polygon and may belong to differentpolygons. In data structural meaning, a border represents a node inborder tree. Nodes store the substance data of border and informationrelating to structure of the tree. Generally, borders are referencessuch as indices or pointers referencing nodes in border trees, usuallyas hash values of node data. Geometrically, a node represents a zigzagline formed by contiguous edges between two vertices (they don't have beadjacent, and may belong to different loops or polygons). These twovertices are called the starting point and the ending point,collectively called as the endpoints. When a node has no child node, itrepresents the line segment connecting its two endpoints, which is anedge in a polygon. When a node has child nodes, the node represents thezigzag line formed by all the edges represented by all the leaf nodes inthe sub-tree of the border tree rooted at the node. In an embodiment,the node data includes the vertex indices of the starting and endingpoints of the border and the indices of its parent nodes (nil if thereis no parent node). We represent these information as a triple (a, b,f), wherein a is the index of the starting point, b is the index of theending point, and f is the index of the parent node. A node index is avalue that uniquely represents a node, and the hash value of its contentcan be used as the index. The index of a vertex is a value that uniquelyrepresents a vertex, and the hash value of the coordinates of the vertexcan be used as the index of the vertex.

A polygon is represented by a group of loops. A loop is an ordered listof directional borders. A directional border contains a border and itsdirection information. Border is index or handle of a node in the borderforest. The border forest is a collection of border trees; a border treeis a tree data structure. A leaf node of border tree represents apolygon edge. A node in border tee represents a zigzag line formed byall edges represented by leaf nodes in the sub-tree of border treerooted at the node.

In an embodiment of the present invention, for a directional bordercontaining border d, if the direction from the starting point toward theending point of the border d is consistent with the orientation of theloop that the directional border is in, its direction information f istrue, otherwise its direction information f is false. Therefore, if f istrue, the starting and ending points of a border are the starting andending points of the directional border, respectively. If f is false,the starting point of the border line is the ending point of thedirectional border, and the ending point of border is the starting pointof the directional border. The list of directional borders of a loop isan ordered list, and the order of the directional borders in the list isconsistent with the orientation when walking along the loop. If thedirectional borders in the loop are rearranged in circularly, it remainsthe same loop geometrically, and we call the two directional borderlists circularly equivalent.

A border is equivalent to the zigzag line segment composed of all itssub-borders. For a directional border in a loop, the resulting loop isalso equivalent to the original loop if replacement is made according tothe following rules:

If a directional border A of a loop contains border PQ whose sub-bordersare PW₁, W₁W₂, . . . , W_(n-1)W_(n), W_(n)Q and its directioninformation is F, replace A in the loop according to the rules below: ifF is true, with a list of ordered directional borders PW₁, W₁W₂, . . . ,W_(n-1)W_(n), W_(n)Q with their direction flags set to true; if F isfalse, with a list of ordered directional borders W_(n)Q, W_(n-1)W_(n),. . . , W₁W₂, PW₁ with their direction flags set to false.

An operation according to the rules above is called replacingdirectional border with sub-borders.

Two loops are equivalent if they can be made circularly equivalent byrepeatedly replacing directional border with sub-borders. Theequivalence of loops can also be expressed more formally as:

After some operations of Op.1 or Op.2 (including no operation), if thequantity, order, and content of the directional borders of the two loopsare the same, the two loops are equivalent:

Op.1: Rotate the list of directional borders of one of the loopscircularly;

Op.2: Replace a directional border with sub-borders in one of the loops.

Two polygons are the same if they actually occupy the same space, nomatter what data structure are used to represent them. Therefore, twopolygons are the same if their loops correspond one-to-one byequivalence.

For polygons represented according to the method described above, amethod for verifying geometric integrity of a group of input geometricobjects and a group of output geometry geometric objects includes:

Merge polygons in the group of input geometric objects and polygons inthe group of output geometric objects respectively to form a group ofmerged input polygons and a group of merged output polygons;

If the group of merged input polygons and the group of merged outputpolygons consist of the same polygons, the transaction is geometricallyintegral.

FIG. 4(a) is an example with 4 polygons (S301, S302, S303, S304). FIG.4(b) illustrates the structure of border trees according relationshipsamong some of the borders in FIG. 4(a). The arrows in FIG. 4(b)represent the parent-child relationship among borders. A box representsa border. The first letters are the starting points of respectiveborders. The second letters are the ending points of respective borders.Polygon S301 consists of one loop. The loop contains three borders AE,EH, HA. Border AE is a sub-border of border AK and also the parentborder of borders AD and DE. Border AD is the parent border of AB andBD. When the direction of a border is inconsistent with the orientationof the loop, the direction information associated with the border in theloop is false, and we express it by adding a “−” sign before the border.Thus, polygon S302 has only one loop and there is a border “−AD” in theloop. The polygon S303 has only one loop and there is a border “−DE” inthe loop. The polygon S304 has one loop and there is a border “−EH” inthe loop. Among the four loops, data of borders AD, DE, EH are sharedbetween two polygons.

One embodiment of the present invention is a method for mergingpolygons. Polygons in the blockchain are represented according to themethod described above. Merging polygon A and polygon B comprises of thefollowing steps:

S11. Find the zigzag line segments O₁, O₂, . . . O_(n) that consist ofand only of all common edges between A and B wherein no two segmentshaving a common endpoint. If there is no such segment, polygon A andpolygon B cannot be merged.

S12. Add all loops of polygons A and B to a set of loops named L.

S13. For each segment O_(j) where (e₁, f_(j)) are the endpoints of thesegment O_(j), perform the following steps:

S131. If either e_(j) or f_(j) is not an endpoint of the directionalborder that it is in, replace the directional border with sub-borders inthe loop containing the directional border. Repeat this step until e_(j)and f_(j) are both endpoints of some directional borders in the loop;

S132. If O_(j) appears in two loops Q and R of L, merge them into oneloop in L. The method of merging comprises of replacing Q and R in Lwith a new loop which is obtained by removing the borders in O_(j) fromthe directional border lists of Q and R, rearranging their directionalborders in their original circular order so that the starting points oftheir first directional borders and the ending points of their lastdirectional borders are the endpoints of O_(j) then concatenate the twolists of directional borders to form a new loop.

S133. If O_(j) appears twice in a loop Q of L, split Q into two newloops W₁ and W₂ in L. W₁ and W₂ comprise of the directional bordersappearing between the two appearances of O_(j) in Q in their originalcircular order respectively. In other words, the two new loops areformed as follows: begin with O_(j) traverse all the directional bordersof Q in circular order, add the directional borders visited after thefirst occurrence of O_(j) and before the second occurrence of O_(j) intoone loop; add the directional borders visited after the secondoccurrence of O_(j) and before the next occurrence of O_(j) into anotherloop.

S134. After all common borders are processed according to the stepsabove, the non-empty loops remaining in L constitute the merged polygon.

The above method of merging polygons is not the only polygon mergingmethod, one can rotate the directional borders in the loop circularly,or replace a parent directional border with sub-borders, or merge somedirectional borders in the loop into the parent directional border,resulting in a loop different from but equivalent to that produced bythe above method. Any merge method that generates polygons equivalent tothose generated by the method above are protected under the presentinvention.

FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate merging polygons according to the method above.P (lower part in FIG. 5 ) and Q (upper part in FIG. 5 ) are polygons inFIG. 5 to be merged. They have two common line segments, BCD and GHK.Since both P and Q have only one loop, we also refer to thecorresponding loops by P and Q. The directional borders in the P loopare: AF, FH, HL, LA. The directional borders in the Q loop are: aK, −HK,−HG, GD, −DC, −CB, Bb, bc, ca. The sub-borders of AF are: AB, BC, CD,DE, EF. The sub-borders of FH are: FG, GH. The sub-borders of HL are:HK, KL.

1) First, process the contiguous line segment BCD. Because B and D arenot the endpoints of borders in P and Q, according to step S131, replacedirectional borders in P and Q with sub-borders. The directional bordersof the loop P after the replacement are: AB, BC, CD, DE, EF, FG, GH, HK,KL, LA.

Because the segment BCD appears in both the loops P and Q, they arecombined into one loop according to step S132, the method is: delete theBCD from loop Q and rearrange the directional borders with D as thestarting point, namely: DE, EF, FG, GH, HK, KL, LA, AB. Deleting BCDfrom loop P, rearrange the directional borders with B as the startingpoint, namely: Bb, bc, ca, aK, −HK, −GH, GD. Concatenate the two listand the result is: DE, EF, FG, GH, HK, KL, LA, AB, Bb, bc, ca, aK, −HK,−GH, GD.

2) Then process the line segment GHK. Because GHK appears twice in theabove-mentioned merged loop, the loop is split into two loops accordingto step S133, one loop comprises of the directional borders from GD toFG circularly, namely: GD, DE, EF, FG. The other loop comprises of thedirectional borders from KL to aK circularly, namely: KL, LA, AB, Bb,bc, ca, aK. The merged polygon consists of these two loops, as shown inFIG. 6 .

FIGS. 6 and 7 are another illustration of polygon merging. Merge theresult polygon of the merging operation above with another single-looppolygon S. The directional borders of S are −FG, −EF, −DE, −GD. That is,S comprises of the same borders as one loop in the above merged polygon,but in the opposite direction. The common line segments of these twopolygons are GD, DE, EF, and FG. According to S132, loops GD, DE, EF, FGand −FG, −EF, −DE, −GD need to be merged. The merging method is to firstremove the segment from loop S and loops GD, DE, EF, FG. Since bothloops are empty after deletion, no new loops need to be added. Theresult of the merging is a polygon with a single loop, which is: KL, LA,AB, Bb, bc, ca, aK, as shown in FIG. 7 .

Another embodiment of the present invention is a method for verificationof integrity of a transaction under an elementary right when tokenvalues are polygons. The method comprises of constructing an inputborder group and an output border group that comprise of all directionalborders of all input polygons covering an elementary right and alldirectional borders of all output polygons covering the elementary rightrespectively; and verifying that the input border group and the outputborder group are identical or are identical after applications of any ofOp. 3˜5 one or more times:

Op.3: Replace a directional border in the input border group or in theoutput border group with sub-borders;

Op.4: Merge a sub-group of directional borders in the input border groupor in the output border group that consists of all sub-borders of aborder with a directional border having the border and directioninformation consistent with the directional borders in the sub-group;

Op.5: Remove two directional borders from the input border group or theoutput border group if they have opposite direction information and sameborder component.

Table 1 is an example of polygon groups shown FIGS. 5 and 7 . All thepolygons cover the same elementary right:

TABLE 1 Input and out polygon groups covering an elementary right InputOutput Polygon Directional Borders Directional Borders P AF, FH, HL, LAKL, LA, AB, Q aK, -HK, -HG, GD, Bb, bc, ca, aK -DC, -CB, Bb, bc, ca S-FG, -EF, -DE, -GD

The group of directional borders of all input polygons (input bordergroup) is: {AF, FH, HL, LA, aK, −HK, −HG, GD, −DC, −CB, Bb, bc, ca, −FG,−EF, −DE, −GD}. The group of directional borders of all output polygons(output border group) is: {KL, LA, AB, Bb, bc, ca, aK}. To help focus onthe difference of the two groups, we remove the common directionalborders of the two groups and have:

Input border group: {AF, FH, HL, −HK, −HG, GD, −DC, −CB, −FG, −EF, −DE,−GD}

Output border group: {KL, AB}

Applying Op. 5 to the input border group, GD and −GD are removed fromthe input border group, the input border group becomes: {AF, FH, HL,−HK, −HG, −DC, −CB, −FG, −EF, −DE}.

Applying Op. 3 to AF of the input border group, and then Op. 5, theinput border group becomes: {AB, FH, HL, −HK, −HG, −FG}.

Applying Op. 4 to −HG, −FG of the input border group, the input bordergroup becomes: {AB, FH, HL, −HK, −FH}.

Applying Op. 5 to the input border group, the input border groupbecomes: {AB, HL, −HK}.

Applying Op. 3 to HL of the input border group, and then Op. 5, theinput border group becomes: {AB, KL}, which is identical to the outputborder group. Thus the transaction is geometrically integral under theelementary right.

One embodiment of the present invention is a method for constructing anelementary right set, comprising the following steps:

a) Merge right sets in all inputs and outputs of a transaction toproduce a union right set R;

b) Test whether there us a right in R that is ancestor of another rightin R. If the test result is affirmative, for each right item r on theparent-child chain from the descendant (inclusive) to the ancestor(exclusive), add the complement of r into R. Remove the ancestor rightfrom R.

c) Repeat above step until there is no pair of rights in R havingancestor-descendant relationship, then the set R is the elementary rightset of the transaction.

A right set covers a right if the right is in the right set, or anancestor of the right is in the right set.

A right is covered by a token if it is covered by the token's right set.

One embodiment of the present invention is a method for verifyingintegrity of a transaction with tokens whose values are monodromies,including the following steps:

31) Add monodromies in all input tokens and output tokens into a set ofmonodromies.

32) For each monodromy in the set of monodromies, find the matchinginput tokens and matching output tokens covering the monodromyrespectively. Add all the rights in the right set of matching inputtokens and matching output tokens to the matching input right group andthe matching output right group respectively.

33) Complementarily merge the matching input right group and thematching output right group respectively to form an merged input rightgroup and an merged output right group.

34) Test whether the merged input right group and the merged outputright group are identical. If the test result is affirmative, thetransaction is integral under the monodromy.

35) If for every monodromy in the set of monodromies, the transaction isintegral under the monodromy, the transaction is integral.

Illustrate the method by an example below. Providing A and B aremonodromies. a-h are rights, and their relationships are shown in FIG. 2. Input of the transaction is [A,{g}], [A,{f,h}], [B,{d}], and output is[A,{a}], [B,{c,g}], [B,{f,h}].

According to step 31), the monodromy set is {A, B}.

First, take A as the monodromy of choice, and the matching input rightgroup is [g, f, h] and the matching output right group is [a] accordingto step 32). Complementarily merge the groups according to step 33) toform input merged right group [a] and a output merged right group [a].According to step 34) the transaction isintegral under A.

Then take B as the monodromy of choice, and the matching input rightgroup is [d] and the matching output right group is [c, g, f, h]according to step 32. Complementarily merge the groups according to step33) to form input merged right group [d] and a output merged right group[d]. According to step 34) the transaction is integral under B.

Finally, according to step 35), the transaction is integral.

One embodiment of the present invention is a method for constructingtransactions in a blockchain. During the circulation of tokens in ablockchain system, construct transactions per user and send data oftransaction to nodes in the blockchain system. Transactions containtokens, and each token contains a value and a right set. The value maybe a number, a geometric object or a monodromy. Monodromies may be theidentities of things. Right set is a set of rights, which are referencessuch as indexes or handles to nodes in right forest. Right forestconsists of a collection of right trees. A right tree is a tree datastructure. A node of a right tree contains a description for rightscope. Child nodes of a node always exist in pair, which is called childnode pair. The right scopes of a child node pair are complementary eachother within the right scope of their parent node. Construction oftransaction includes splitting and merging of rights. The method forsplitting right is as follows:

Split the right items in the right set of an input token into twocomplementary sub sets;

Construct two output tokens, whose values are identical to that in theinput token, and their right sets are the respective subsets above.

The method for merging rights is as follows:

Providing two input tokens with identical value, construct an outputtoken with value identical to that of the input tokens and right setbeing the union of the right sets of the two input tokens.

An embodiment of the present invention is a block chain systemcomprising of nodes and terminals. The nodes and the terminals areconnected to the Internet and communicate with each other through theInternet.

A terminal constructs transaction according to the methods describedabove per users, and transmits the transaction to nodes in theblockchain system.

A node receives the transaction sent by the terminal or block sent byother nodes, wherein the block is formed by packing transactions. Thenode verifies whether the received transaction or transactions in theblock are legitimate. If the received block is legal, add the block tothe tail of the local blockchain data; if the received transaction islegal, keep the transaction, and periodically pack the received legaltransactions into block, adding the packed block to the tail of thelocal blockchain data and broadcast it to other nodes in the blockchainnetwork.

An embodiment of the present invention is a computer-readable storagemedium in which a computer program is stored. When the computer programis executed by a processor, any of the blockchain methods describedabove is implemented.

As should be appreciated by technicians in the field, the embodimentsdescribed in the present application may be provided as a method, asystem, or a computer program product. Accordingly, the presentapplication may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, anentirely software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software andhardware aspects. Furthermore, the present application may take the formof a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usablestorage media (including but not limited to disk storage, CD-ROM,optical storage, etc.) having computer-usable program code embodiedtherein.

The present invention is described in terms of steps of methods,apparatus (systems), and computer program products according toembodiments of the present application. It shall be construed that eachstep can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computerprogram instructions may be provided for a general purpose computer,special purpose computer, embedded processor or other programmable dataprocessing device to produce a machine for implementing the functionsspecified in one or more steps by execution of a processor of a computeror other programmable data processing device.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded into a computeror other programmable data processing device, allowing a series ofoperational steps to be performed on the computer or the programmabledevice to produce a computer-implemented process for implementation ofthe functions specified in one or more steps described above.

Finally, it should be noted that the embodiments described above areonly used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present inventioninstead of limiting them. Although the detailed description of thepresent invention is described with reference to the above embodiments,technicians of the field should understand that the specific embodimentsof the present invention can still be modified or equivalently replacedwithin the scope of the present invention and they shall fall within thescope of the claims of the present invention.

What is claimed is:
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A blockchain method, comprising: S1. receivinginformation of a transaction or information of a first block, saidinformation of said first block comprises of packed information oftransactions; S2. verifying whether said transaction or each of thetransactions in said first block is legal; and S3. under thecircumstance that said first block is legal, appending said first blockafter a tail of data of a local blockchain; under the circumstance thatsaid transaction is legal, keeping said transaction, periodicallypacking received legal transactions into a second block, appending saidsecond block after the tail of data of said local blockchain andbroadcasting information of said second block to other nodes in ablockchain network; wherein said transaction or each of the transactionsin said first block comprises of tokens, and each of said tokenscomprises of a value and a right set; said right set is a set of rights;each of said rights is a reference to a node in a right forest; saidvalue is one of: a number, a geometric object, and a monodromy; saidright forest comprises of a collection of right trees; each of saidright trees is a tree data structure; each node of each of said righttrees comprises of a description of scope of rights; said node may havea pair of child nodes, called child node pair, wherein scopes of rightsof said child nodes supplement each other within the scope of said node.2. The method of claim 1, wherein values of said tokens are numbers, thestep verifying that a transaction is legal comprising a step forverifying that said transaction is integral, the method for verifyingthat said transaction is integral further comprising: 21) splitting eachtoken in a group of input tokens of said transaction or a group ofoutput tokens of said transaction into one or more simple tokens, suchthat each of said simple tokens is a token with a right set containingonly one right in a right set of said token and a value identical to avalue of said token; adding said simple tokens to a simple group ofinput tokens or a simple group of output tokens respectively; and 22)until said simple group of input tokens and said simple group of outputtokens are identical or there are no more simple tokens that can bemerged, merging simple tokens in said simple group of input tokens or insaid simple group of output tokens according to any of steps 221, 222,and 223; when said simple group of input tokens and said simple group ofoutput tokens are identical, said transaction is integral: 221) whenthere exist two simple tokens in said simple group of input tokens or insaid simple group of output tokens having identical values andcomplementary rights under one parent right, merging said two simpletokens into a simple token comprising said value and a right setcontaining said parent right only in said simple group of input tokensor said simple group of output tokens respectively; 222) when thereexist two simple tokens in said simple group of input tokens or in saidsimple group of output tokens having different values and complementaryrights under one parent right, replacing said two simple tokens with twonew simple tokens respectively, one of said two new simple tokenscomprising a value of lesser of values of said two simple tokens and aright set containing only said parent right; one of said new simpletoken having a value of difference of values of said two simple tokensand a right set identical to a right set of a simple token havinggreater value of said two tokens; and 223) when there exist two simpletokens in said simple group of input tokens or in said simple group ofoutput tokens having the same right set, merging said two simple tokensinto a simple token respectively with value being a sum of values ofsaid two simple tokens and a right set identical to said right set. 3.The method of claim 1, wherein values of said tokens are geometricobjects, the step verifying that a transaction is legal comprising astep for verifying that said transaction is integral, the method forverifying that said transaction is integral further comprising: 31)constructing an elementary right set for said transaction; 32) for eachright in said elementary right set, finding matching input tokens andmatching output tokens covering said right to construct a group ofmatching input geometric objects and a group of matching outputgeometric objects respectively; testing whether said group of matchinginput geometric objects and said group of matching output geometricobjects are geometrically integral; when a result of said test isaffirmative, said transaction is integral under said right; 33) whensaid transaction is geometrically integral under every right in saidelementary right set, said transaction is integral; said elementaryright set is a set of the rights wherein no right in said elementaryright set is an ancestor of another right in said elementary right setand any right in right sets of input tokens of said transaction or inright sets of output tokens of said transaction is either in saidelementary right set or can be formed by complementarily merging rightsin said elementary right set; said group of matching input geometricobjects comprises of geometric objects in said matching input tokens;said group of matching output geometric objects comprises of geometricobjects in said matching output tokens.
 4. The method of claim 3,wherein said group of matching input geometric objects and said group ofmatching output geometric objects are geometrically integral when saidgroup of matching input geometric objects and said group of matchingoutput geometric objects satisfy conditions 1 and 2; conditions 1 and 2are as follows: condition 1: there is no spatial overlap among geometryobjects in said group of matching output geometric objects; andcondition 2: total space occupied by all geometry objects in said groupof matching input geometric objects is the same as total space occupiedby all geometry objects in said group of matching output geometricobjects.
 5. The method of claim 3, wherein geometric objects in saidtransactions are polygons, and each of said polygons comprises of agroup of loops, and each of said loops comprises of an ordered list ofdirectional borders, and each of said directional borders comprises of aborder and direction information; a border forest is a collection ofborder trees; each of said border trees is a tree data structure; saidborder is an index or a pointer referencing a node in said borderforest; each node in each of said border trees represents a zigzagsegment of lines formed by all edges represented by all leaf nodes in asub-tree rooted at said node.
 6. The method of claim 5, furthercomprising: merging all polygons in said group of matching inputgeometric objects and all polygons in said group of matching outputgeometric objects respectively to form a group of merged input polygonsand a group of merged output polygons; and under the circumstance thatsaid group of merged input polygons and said group of merged outputpolygons consist of same polygons, said group of matching inputgeometric objects and said group of matching output geometric objectsare geometrically integral; when quantities, orders, and contents oflists of directional borders of two loops are identical, or after atleast one application of Op.1 and Op.2, the quantities, orders, andcontents of the lists of directional borders of the two loops areidentical, the two loops are equivalent: Op.1: circularly rotating alist of directional borders of one of the two loops; and Op.2: replacinga directional border in one of the two loops with sub-borders; twopolygons are the same if loops in said two polygons correspondone-to-one by equivalence.
 7. The method of to claim 6, the step formerging polygons further comprising: S11. testing whether two polygons Aand B to be merged have common edges; when a result of said test isaffirmative, obtaining zigzag line segments composed of all common edgesbetween said polygons A and B, providing endpoints of said zigzag linesegments are (e₁, f₁), (e₂, f₂), (e_(w), f_(w)) respectively, whereinsaid zigzag line segments share no common endpoints; S12. for each ofsaid zigzag line segments (e_(j), f_(j)), performing following steps; amerged polygon consists of all non-empty loops remaining in saidpolygons A and B after all of said steps are completed: S121. when saidendpoint e_(j) or f_(j) is not an endpoint of a directional border thatsaid endpoint is on, replacing said directional border with sub-bordersin a loop containing said directional border repeatedly until each ofsaid endpoint e_(j) and f_(j) is an endpoint of a directional border insaid loop; S122. when said zigzag line segment (e_(j), f_(j)) appears intwo different loops Q and R, merging said loops Q and R into a loopequivalent to a loop W, the method to generate said loop W comprising:rearranging all directional borders of said loop Q and said loop Rrespectively in their original circular orders except for directionalborders in said zigzag line segment (e_(j), f_(j)) to form two new listsof directional borders, such that for each of said two new lists astarting point of first directional border and an ending point of lastdirection border are endpoints of said zigzag line segment (e_(j),f_(j)); concatenating said two new lists of directional borders to forma concatenated list, said new loop W consists of said concatenated listof directional borders; and S123. when said zigzag line segment (e_(j),f_(j)) appears twice in a loop W, splitting said loop W into two newloops equivalent to loops W₁ and W₂, wherein said loop W₁ and said loopW₂ respectively comprise of directional borders of said loop W in theiroriginal cyclic order between said appearances of said zigzag linesegment (e_(j), f_(j)).
 8. The method of claim 5, the method furthercomprising: verifying that an input border group comprising alldirectional borders of all polygons in said group of matching inputgeometric objects and an output border group comprising all directionalborders of all polygons in said group of matching output geometricobjects are identical or are identical after applying any of Op.3, 4 and5 one or more times: Op.3: replacing a directional border in said inputborder group or in said output border group with sub-borders; Op.4:merging a plural number of directional borders in said input bordergroups or in said output border group that consist of all child bordersof a border into a directional border comprising said border anddirection information consistent with the directions of said pluralnumber of directional borders; and Op.5: removing two directionalborders from said input border groups or from said output border groupwhen they have opposite direction information and same border.
 9. Themethod of claim 3, the step to construct said elementary right setfurther comprising: 71) merging right sets in input tokens of saidtransaction and right sets in output tokens of said transaction to forma set; 72) testing whether there is a first right in said set that isancestor of a second right in said set; and 73) when a result of saidtest is affirmative, adding to said set every complement right of aright in a parent-child relationship chain between said second right,inclusive, and said first right, exclusive; removing said first rightfrom said set.
 10. The method of claim 1, wherein values of said tokensare monodromies, the step verifying that said transaction is legalcomprising a step for verifying that said transaction is integral, themethod for verifying that said transaction is integral furthercomprising: 81) adding monodromies in all input tokens of saidtransaction and all output tokens of said transaction to a set ofmonodromies; 82) for each monodromy in said set of monodromies, findinginput tokens and output tokens containing said monodromy respectively;adding all rights in said input tokens and in said output tokens to aninput matching right group and an output matching right grouprespectively; 83) complementarily merging said input matching rightgroup and said output matching right group respectively to form a mergedinput right group and a merged output right group. 84) testing whethersaid merged input right group and said merged output right group areidentical, when a result of said test is affirmative, the transaction isintegral under said monodromy; and 85) said transaction is integralwhen, for every monodromy in said set of monodromies, said transactionis integral under said monodromy.
 11. A blockchain method, whereinduring circulation of tokens in blockchain system, constructingtransaction per user; sending data of said transaction to a blockchainnode; wherein said transaction comprises of tokens; each of said tokenscomprises of a value and a right set; said value is one of: a number, ageometric object, a monodromy; said right set is a set of rights; saidright is a reference to a node in a right forest; said right forest is acollection of right trees; said right tree is a tree structure; eachnode in said right tree comprises of a description of right scope; saidnode may have a pair of sub-nodes, called sub-right node pair, whereinright scopes of said sub-nodes supplement each other within right scopeof said node; said step of constructing transaction comprising splittingright or merging rights; the method for splitting right comprising:splitting a right set of an input token into two complementary subsets;constructing two output tokens with a value of said input token asvalues of said two output tokens, and with said subsets as right sets ofsaid two output tokens respectively; and the method for merging rightscomprising: merging right sets of two input tokens having identicalvalues to form a merged right set; constructing an output token withvalue of said input tokens as value of said output token, and with saidmerged right set as right set of said output token.
 12. A blockchainsystem comprising a plural number of nodes and a plural number ofterminals, said nodes and said terminals are connected to an Internetand communicating with each other through the Internet; at least one ofsaid terminals is configured to construct a transaction according to theblockchain method of claim 11, and transmitting said transaction to oneor more of said nodes; at least one of said nodes is configured toreceive a transaction transmitted by one of said terminals or a secondblock transmitted by another of said nodes, said second block comprisesof packed transactions; said node is configured to verify whether saidtransaction or each of the transactions in said second block is legalaccording to the blockchain method of claim 2; under the circumstancethat said second block is legal, appending said second block after atail of local blockchain data; under the circumstance that saidtransaction is legal, keeping said transaction, periodically packingreceived legal transactions into a third block, appending said thirdblock to the tail of said local blockchain data and broadcastinginformation of said third block to at least one other node of said nodesin said blockchain system.
 13. A blockchain system comprising a pluralnumber of nodes and a plural number of terminals, said nodes and saidterminals are connected to an Internet and communicating with each otherthrough the Internet; at least one of said terminals is configured toconstruct a transaction according to the blockchain method of claim 11,and transmitting said transaction to one or more of said nodes; at leastone of said nodes is configured to receive a transaction transmitted byone of said terminals or a second block transmitted by another of saidnodes, said second block comprises of packed transactions; said node isconfigured to verify whether said transaction or each of thetransactions in said second block is legal according to the blockchainmethod of claim 3; under the circumstance that said second block islegal, appending said second block after a tail of local blockchaindata; under the circumstance that said transaction is legal, keepingsaid transaction, periodically packing received legal transactions intoa third block, appending said third block to the tail of said localblockchain data and broadcasting information of said third block to atleast one other node of said nodes in said blockchain system.
 14. Ablockchain system comprising a plural number of nodes and a pluralnumber of terminals, said nodes and said terminals are connected to anInternet and communicating with each other through the Internet; atleast one of said terminals is configured to construct a transactionaccording to the blockchain method of claim 11, and transmitting saidtransaction to one or more of said nodes; at least one of said nodes isconfigured to receive a transaction transmitted by one of said terminalsor a second block transmitted by another of said nodes, said secondblock comprises of packed transactions; said node is configured toverify whether said transaction or each of the transactions in saidsecond block is legal according to the blockchain method of claim 10;under the circumstance that said second block is legal, appending saidsecond block after a tail of local blockchain data; under thecircumstance that said transaction is legal, keeping said transaction,periodically packing received legal transactions into a third block,appending said third block to the tail of said local blockchain data andbroadcasting said third block to at least one other node of said nodesin said blockchain system.
 15. A computer-readable storage medium inwhich a computer program is stored, when said computer program isexecuted by a processor, implementing a method according to claim
 1. 16.A computer-readable storage medium in which a computer program isstored, when said computer program is executed by a processor,implementing a method according to claim
 2. 17. A computer-readablestorage medium in which a computer program is stored, when said computerprogram is executed by a processor, implementing a method according toclaim
 3. 18. A computer-readable storage medium in which a computerprogram is stored, when said computer program is executed by aprocessor, implementing a method according to claim 10.